Causes and treatment of burns in children
Keywords:
burns, children, treatment, rehabilitationAbstract
Introduction: Burns in children occur twice more frequently than in adults, and mostly in young children, who have limited perception of hazard and danger which are health and life threatening.
Study aim: The aim of the study is to analyse causes of burns and present the rehabilitation programme of children hospitalised in the Pediatric Surgery Department of St. Jadwiga the Queen Hospital No. 2 in Rzeszów.
Material and method: The studies were carried out on 220 children, who were treated for burns in the period between January 2007 and December 2008. The examined patients were aged from 14 days to 15 years old. On the basis of medical documentation the most frequent causes , kinds and extent of burns as well as the most frequent areas of body affected by burns and depth of burn injuries were selected. In order to assess body surface area burns Wallace’s Rule of Nines was applied.
Results: Among the examined children the most frequent burns are thermal burns, including scaldings which are caused by contact with hot or boiling liquid. Among the examined children the majority were infants aged from 2 weeks to 24 months old. In order to achieve a satisfactory functional effect in the treatment of children , alongside basic therapy, rehabilitation was indispensable.
Conclusions: 1. The most frequent among the examined children are thermal burns – scaldings caused by contact with hot or boiling liquid. 2. Children up to 24 months of age were the most frequent burn victims.
Downloads
References
Kaźmierski M. i wsp. Rola lekarza rodzinnego w leczeniu oparzeń. W: Magazyn Medyczny – Lekarz Rodzinny 2002; 33-40.
Jethon J, Strużyna J. Postępy w leczeniu oparzeń w 2004 roku. W: Medycyna Praktyczna Chirurgia 2005;1.
Adamczyk W. Wczesna rehabilitacja. W. Strużyna J. Wczesne leczenie oparzeń. PZWL Warszawa 2006; 301- 317.
Alnababtah KM.,Devies P., Jackson CA, Ashford RL, Fiby M. Burn injuries among childern from a region-wide paediatric burns unit. British Journal of Nursing 2011;10-23,20(3).156.
Duke J., Drewno F. i wsp A study burn hospitalizations for childern younger than 5 jears of age:1983-2008. Pediatrics 2011;127(4),971-977.
Puchała J. Spodaryk M., Jarosz J. Oparzenia u dzieci. Od urazu do wyleczenia. Wydawnictwo UJ 1998; 22.
Puchała J. Katastrofy i masowe zdarzenia. Odrębność postępowania u dzieci. W. Strużyna J. Oparzenia w katastrofach i masowych zdarzeniach. PZWL Warszawa 2004; 271-293.
Tecklin J.S. Fizjoterapia pediatryczna. PZWL Warszawa 1996; 232-233.
Mika T, Kasprzak W: Fizykoterapia. PZWL Warszawa 2006.
Pasek J. Mucha R., Misiak G., Sieroń A. Leczenie oparzeń termicznych. Rehabilitacja w praktyce 2006;3, 33-35.
Hutchings H., Barnes M., Maddocks A.,Lyons R., James-Ellison M.Y. Burns in young children: a retrospective matched cohort study of health and developmental outcomes. Child care,health and developnent.2010;36(6)787-94.
Strużyna J. (red. ): Oparzenia w katastrofach i masowych zdarzeniach. PZWL Warszawa 2004;16-40.
Nyka W, Tomczak H. Rehabilitacja chorych z oparzeniami termicznymi - zasady, kontrowersje, koszty. Rehab. Med. 2003; 4;7:23—29.
Jethon J., Kulicki M. Postępy w leczeniu oparzeń w 2005 r. Medycyna praktyczna, Chirurgia 2006/02.
Rab B., Koller R., Ruzicka M. i wsp. Should dermal scald burns in children be covered with autologous skin grafts or with allogeneic cultivated keratinocytes? - "The Viennese concept". Burns 2005; 31, 578-586.
Krieger Y., Rosenberg L., Lapid O. i wsp.: Escharotomy using an enzymatic debridement agent for treating experimental burn-induced compartment syndrome in an animal model. J. Trauma 2005; 58: 1259-1264.
Żyburt J.,i wsp. Pielęgnacja ciężko oparzonych. W: Roczniki Oparzeń 1996; 237-238.
Kłapa Z., Musiał Z., Słowiaczek M., Bułat W. Potrzeby edukacyjne rodziców dzieci poparzonych. Studia Medyczne 2008;11:17-21.
Albayrak Yavuz, Albayrak Ayse, Yldz Abdullah, Aylu Belkiz; Clinical and demographic features of pediatric burns in the eastern provinces of Turkey. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011; 18;19(1):6.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2011 Medical Journal of the Rzeszow University and the National Medicines Institute, Warsaw
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition: this means that articles have free availability on the public Internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from having access to the Internet itself.
All articles are published with free open access under the CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license (the current version is CC-BY, version 4.0). If you submit your paper for publication by the Eur J Clin Exp Med, you agree to have the CC-BY license applied to your work. Under this Open Access license, you, as the author, agree that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that Eur J Clin Exp Med content can be mined without barriers for the research needs.
